Criteria and Experience
• Minimum 5 years I.T experience
• Excellent understanding of open source systems i.e. Linux
• Ability to work under pressure
• Must be able to work shifts/standby
• Good communication skills
• Ability to work as a team player

Core Technical Skills
• RHCE certification – Redhat Linux
• Have a solid understanding and experience working with Linux operating systems
• Strong scripting experience – Bash, python
• Strong Open Source technologies e.g. Tomcat, Wildfly, JBoss, Cron. OpenJDK
• Capacity planning and reporting for all platforms
• Research and development of new technologies relevant to the business strategy
• Monitoring, alerting and dashboards design and setup
• Preferred Methodologies – ITIL. Technologies: Applications manager, Splunk and Bash
• Installation, Configuration, monitoring. Performance tuning and maintenance of operating systems and application software stack with focus on high availability, stability and security.
• Focus on Security and application hardening.
• Good understanding of TCP/IP, firewalls and iptables

Minimum Qualification
• Relevant Bachelors Degree in Information Technology Computer Science, Information Systems or related field
• Preferred Qualification – Control M/O/R certification
• Experience – 3 to 5 years experience in a similar environment, of which 1 to 2 years ideally at junior (entry level) management level
• Additional Knowledge – FNB mainframe and distribution
• Control M/O/R software
• JCL Advantageous
• Prior batch scheduling or software equivalent
• Programme/Batch monitoring
• Developer fix application
• Troubleshooting and analysis protocol
• Monitoring and command centre knowledge
• Data processing
• Infrastructure knowledge
• Operating systems knowledge